Force Quote by George Leonard

Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

— Alex Grey

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

— Julian Huxley

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

— Michael Crichton

“To be such a complicated, myterious piece of biological machinery! That is a special thing, unprecedented in all of evolutionary history. Our ability to…

— Veronica Roth

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must…

— Marvin Minsky

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

— Robert Ardrey

“But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as…

— Charles Darwin

Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and…

— John Searle

“Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the…

— Karl Popper

“No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may…

— Brian Herbert

Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being.

— Adrian Forsyth